They also have a full-time campaign manager overseeing a paid staff of five and scores of volunteers.

As for the opponents, they may not have the money or organization to match the Niners - but they do have 50 to 100 very vocal volunteers walking precincts to talk to voters.

"We're explaining that this is not about football," said "No on J" treasurer Bill Bailey. "It's about money."

Porn talk: Just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger, the weirdness intensifies over at the San Francisco Planning Department, where an investigation involving the exchange of joke-filled X-rated images and videos has already cost four higher-ups their jobs.

City officials continue to interview each of the 30 or so staffers whose office computers were found to contain the offending material.

Meanwhile, officials in Mendocino and Marin counties and in the city of Willits (Mendocino County) are investigating whether porn was being swapped among their planning staffers as well.

Two senior Mendocino County planners have been fired so far.

In San Francisco, three of the four top targets - including veteran Zoning Administrator Larry Badiner- have cleared out their desks and are gone. (Badiner has denied circulating the material himself and is fighting to get reinstated.)

Planning deputy Craig Nikitas - who insiders say has accepted responsibility for his role in circulating the X-rated material - opted to resign, effective June 30.

So why did Planning Director John Rahaimannounce to just about everyone's amazement that Nikitas had been temporarily named acting zoning administrator?

"To be clear, it's not a promotion," Rahaim said. He told us that Nikitas has been the stand-in for years whenever the zoning administrator wasn't available.

In any case, he says, it's just until this week, when a new acting administrator takes over.

Nikitas did not return our calls seeking comment.

Oakland abyss: The city of Oakland is headed right off a $42 million fiscal cliff - but while it may appear that no one is at the wheel, there's actually a bit of strategy at work in how the City Council is handling the crisis.

We're told the council is avoiding isolated cuts to popular programs such as the arts because, in addition to making enemies, there just isn't that much money to be saved.

But wrap those cuts up with something really serious - like the threatened layoffs of 190 police officers - and people get the idea that the council has no choice.

Still, the council's seeming thumb twiddling is causing frustration in many quarters - including council President Jane Brunner. In fact, she is so tired of putting off the tough choices that she won't put a package up for a vote until June 29, the day before the end of the fiscal year, so the council will have no choice but to vote.